Sunday Service:
Holy Eucharist
at 9:30 am
Child care is available
Church of Our
Saviour
191 Flanagan Way (Rt 153) Secaucus, NJ 07094
Tel: 201-863-1449
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Mark A. Lewis, Vicar MLewis@secaucus.org
Dorothy Fowlkes
Pastoral Associate
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Worship for
the Lord's Day
The
First Sunday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
18 May 2008
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Almighty and everlasting God, you have given us grace to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and to worship your divine Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory. We ask this with confidence in your love. Amen. |
 Holy TrinityQes Adamu Tesfaw |
Holy Eucharist - 9:30 am
Today's
Lessons
Genesis 1:1-2:3 / Psalm
150
2 Corinthians 13:5-13 / Matthew 28: 16-20
Today's
Hymns
362
- Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty
368
- Holy Father, great Creator
324
- Let all mortal flesh keep silence
292
- O Jesus, crowned with all renown
A reading
from the Book
of Genesis 1:1-2:3
Today we hear the creation story from "P," the Priestly Code. It is placed at the very opening of the Bible, though it was written later than the creation story by "J" which is placed after it. "P" was a collection of religious stories written during or shortly after the Babylonian exile, about 500-550 BC. Whereas J's creation story was mythical and dramatic, P's reads like a beautiful nineteenth-century romantic poem. Notice: Women and men are treated as equals. According to ancient cosmology, the sky is a firm dome, above which is water; openings in the sky let the water come through as rain. -- Arthur Cash
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth." And it was so. God made the two great lights-- the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night-- and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky." So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
- So God created humankind in his image,
- in the image of God he created
them;
- male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
(To be read by Howie Allen)
Psalm 150 Laudate Dominum
Hallelujah!
Praise God in his holy temple;
praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him for his mighty acts;
praise him for his excellent greatness.
Praise him with the blast of the
ram's-horn;
praise him with lyre and harp.
Praise him with timbrel and
dance;
praise him with strings and pipe.
Praise him with resounding
cymbals;
praise him with loud-clanging cymbals.
Let everything that has breath
praise the LORD.
Hallelujah!
(To be read by Don Roberts)
A reading
from Paul's Second Letter
to the Corinthians 13:5-13
This conclusion to the epistle is the fullest conclusion to be found in Paul's letters. Jesus died, most scholars agree, in the year 30. Although there is no universal agreement among scholars about the dates of the parts of the New Testament, most think Paul's epistles (and possibly James's) were written about 50-60 AD; Mark's gospel in the period 65-70; Matthew's, Luke's, and John's in roughly 80-100; and the non-Pauline epistles even later. We do not have a single first-hand account of Jesus; what we have are the traditions about him that were gathered by later Christians. -- Arthur Cash
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test! I hope you will find out that we have not failed. But we pray to God that you may not do anything wrong --not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may become perfect. So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be severe in using the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
(To be read by Howie Allen)
The
Gospel According to
Matthew 28:16-20
The 
eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the
mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw
him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
(To be read by Dorothy Fowlkes)
The Prayers of the People will
be led by Ruth Angelo
The image of the Holy Trinity at the top of this page is by Adamu Tesfaw, who left the priesthood of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to devote full time to painting. Adamu's works were exhibited at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Another article about Adamu and his painting is available from the UCLA Daily Bruin. This is a less frequently employed depiction of the Trinity and has been rejected by some in the past because its similarity to religious images in non-Christian faiths.
The Trinity by El Greco is in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The image on this page was made available by The Franciscan Brothers of the White Cross, in Spain.
Comments on the Readings
The prefaces to the lessons (above) are composed each week by a literature scholar at Columbia University, Professor Arthur Cash, for use at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea, New York City. Professor Cash has generously offered their use to our congregation.
The Diocese of Montreal additionally offers an attractive and useful guide to the lectionary readings (including the Psalm and Gospel). Because it comes from of the Anglican Church of Canada which follows the Revised Common Lectionary, the readings sometimes may vary from those of the Episcopal Church, but it still can be most helpful. Link
The Sunday Bulletin Link
Reflections on Sermons
Mark Lewis's
sermons have been interpreted for reading on the internet.
They are indexed at the bottom of the Sunday
page.
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